out-of-service
out-of-service adjective: not working, not functioning, broken; currently unavailable.
Adjective
out-of-service (not comparable)
- Not working, not functioning, broken; currently unavailable.
- No one much likes it when something—an empty cab, an out-of-service subway train, summer—goes by without stopping.2005 October 17, “Talk of the Town: Elevator Hack”, in The New Yorker
- Synonyms:
- out of commission, out-of-order, bad, borked, broken, broken-down, bum, bung, busted, cactused
Synonyms of out-of-service
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- crocked
- dead
- Donald Ducked
- down
- duff
- faulty
- flaky
- FUBAR
- fucked
- fuckered up
- inoperative
- janky
- jiggered
- kaput
- knackered
- malfunctioning
- munted
- nonfunctional
- nonoperational
- offline
- off one's feed
- on the blink
- on the fritz
- out
- out of gas
- out of kilter
- out of order
- out of service
- out of sorts
- out of whack
Antonyms
Forms of out-of-service
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Questions about out-of-service
- What does out-of-service mean?
- Out-of-service means not working, not functioning, broken; currently unavailable.
- What part of speech is out-of-service?
- Out-of-service is an adjective.
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